Why tumblr needs to start loving Penny Dreadful
- This is about why everyone needs to STOP RIGHT NOW AND GO WATCH PENNY DREADFUL
- It is an amazing horror/fantasy show, set in Victorian London
- It uses characters from Victorian gothic literature, but in a way that makes them so much better than the original texts
- Absolutely well informed about Victorian history and culture, no bullshit!
- It is visually beautiful
- It is also beautifully written, wonderful dialogue and excellent scriptwriting. Seriously some of the best writing I have seen on TV.
- Strong woman as a main character FTW
- Who is complex, and brilliant, insightful and vulnerable in a way that only makes her more awesome
- And acted to perfection by Eva Green
- Bi characters! Three of them! That is, out of five main ones!
- One of them is ace! (I really hope they don’t make him have sex in the future)
- Dorian Gray is basically the best bi character I have ever seen in media. He is the trope of the decadent, hedonist, extravagant, absolutely beautiful sexy bisexual, but done with depth and beautifully acted and - get this! - without biphobia being tossed at him!
- Better than Jack Harkness! Or at the very least, on the same level only much darker and more complex.
- Possibly more bis in the future! (Strongly insinuated by the creator)
- Complex characters that have personalities and pasts and conflict and hidden motives and we haven’t even seen half of it because
- The creator has spent 10 years (!) thinking about this show before actually starting it
- And it’s about conscience, morality, humanity, love, sexuality and also horror, demons, fears - but mostly the ones inside us
- It is so awesome that I’ve watched it 4 times in the past 2 months
- It has problems: It uses the smurfette trope, it doesn’t pass the Bechdel test, it has misogyny, terrible attitudes about women’s sexuality, it’s anti-sex workers, it’s racist and largely based on colonialist and orientalist attitudes
- Despite all these I still love this show because it really is just sooo goooooood @_@
- So many feels. SO MANY FEELS.
- GO WATCH
- SRSLY
- WATCH IT
Here’s the trailer [TW: spiders, insects, violence, blood, sex]
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